Gilgiti Shina

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Gilgiti Shina is a regional variety of the Shina language spoken primarily in and around Gilgit in northern Pakistan.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gilgiti Shina canonical 4
Shina of Gilgit 1

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
language variety
belongsTo Shina language
surface form: Shina dialect continuum
closelyRelatedTo Astori Shina
Haramosh Shina
surface form: Guresi Shina

Kohistani Shina
coexistsWith Balti
Burushaski
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu

Wakhi
country Pakistan
hasAlternativeName Gilgiti dialect of Shina
hasAncestor Middle Indo-Aryan
surface form: Middle Indo-Aryan languages

Old Indo-Aryan
surface form: Old Indo-Aryan languages
hasFeature mutual intelligibility to varying degrees with other Shina varieties
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu

neighboring local languages
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
gender distinctions
verb agreement with subject
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
tonal contrasts
hasStatus regional language variety
hasSyntacticFeature SOV word order
isSubjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Shina
languageBranch Dardic languages
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
partOf linguistic diversity of Gilgit-Baltistan
region Gilgit-Baltistan
surface form: Gilgit region
spokenIn Gilgit
Gilgit District
Gilgit-Baltistan
northern Pakistan
subdivisionOf Shina language
usedAs vernacular language
usedBy Shina ethnic community in Gilgit region
usedIn everyday communication in Gilgit
writingSystem Arabic script
Urdu-based Arabic script

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shina hasDialect Gilgiti Shina
Haramosh Shina closelyRelatedTo Gilgiti Shina
Astori Shina hasDialectalRelation Gilgiti Shina
Kohistani Shina isDistinctFrom Gilgiti Shina
Kohistani Shina closelyRelatedTo Gilgiti Shina
this entity surface form: Shina of Gilgit